BurkeHarper, 1879 - Всего страниц: 214 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 22
Стр. 2
... literature , in one of its high- est and most commanding senses . Those who have ac- quired a love for abstract politics amid the almost mathe- matical closeness and precision of Hobbes , the philosophic calm of Locke or Mill , or even ...
... literature , in one of its high- est and most commanding senses . Those who have ac- quired a love for abstract politics amid the almost mathe- matical closeness and precision of Hobbes , the philosophic calm of Locke or Mill , or even ...
Стр. 3
... literature is indeed high . We feel no emotion of revolt when Mackin- tosh speaks of Shakespere and Burke in the same breath , as being both of them above mere talent . And we do not dissent when Macaulay , after reading Burke's works ...
... literature is indeed high . We feel no emotion of revolt when Mackin- tosh speaks of Shakespere and Burke in the same breath , as being both of them above mere talent . And we do not dissent when Macaulay , after reading Burke's works ...
Стр. 9
... literature prevailed over the duty of taking up a serious profession . His father , who had set his heart on having ... literature , as the date of the publication of Johnson's Dictionary . It was upon literature , the most seductive ...
... literature prevailed over the duty of taking up a serious profession . His father , who had set his heart on having ... literature , as the date of the publication of Johnson's Dictionary . It was upon literature , the most seductive ...
Стр. 16
... the very beginning , therefore , Burke was drawn to the deepest of all the currents in the thought of the eighteenth century . Johnson and Goldsmith continued the traditions of social and polite literature which had been 16 [ CHAP . BURKE.
... the very beginning , therefore , Burke was drawn to the deepest of all the currents in the thought of the eighteenth century . Johnson and Goldsmith continued the traditions of social and polite literature which had been 16 [ CHAP . BURKE.
Стр. 17
John Morley. the traditions of social and polite literature which had been established by the Queen Anne men . Warburton and a whole host of apologists carried on the battle against de- ism and infidelity . Hume , after furnishing the ...
John Morley. the traditions of social and polite literature which had been established by the Queen Anne men . Warburton and a whole host of apologists carried on the battle against de- ism and infidelity . Hume , after furnishing the ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
admiration affairs afterwards American Assembly authority Ballitore Beaconsfield Bolingbroke Bristol Burke wrote Burke's cents century character Cloth colonies constitution declared Duke Duke of Portland Economic Reform Edmund Burke election Elliot eloquence England English Europe feel force France French Revolution friends genius George Grenville Hastings honour Horace Walpole House of Commons human ideas India interests Ireland Irish Johnson judgment justice King King's less letter liberty literary literature lived Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne matter ment mind ministers ministry moral nation natural ness never noble OLIVER GOLDSMITH once opinion Parliament party passage passion peace perhaps philosophy Pitt political principles reason Reflections reverence Samuel Johnson Shelburne Sheridan sion society speech spirit strong sympathy temper things thought tion took true truth Vindication violent Whig whole Wilkes William Burke Windham wisdom writing
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 194 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Стр. 100 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Стр. 71 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Стр. 71 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Стр. 100 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Стр. 107 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Стр. 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Стр. 71 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination...